Over the next two decades, the United Nations expects that we need to plan, design and build new homes for 1.7 billion people. With buildings already accounting for some 40% of carbon emissions in many countries, the prospect of adding such titanic numbers to the built environment is worrisome. If we further add a 40% world-wide increase in transportation related carbon emissions, energy efficiency measures realized to date will be negated.

Abitare Being covers Yung Ho Chang in a series of pieces that explore his life and design, in: Memory about Father, The Concepts of Material-ism, Design from City to Jewelry, Micro-film Playback, Feichang Yard.

With the launch of the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism's first conference on infrastructural design, Infrastructural Monument, not only do we look to the future, but we also reflect back on the contributions of one of the greatest infrastructural designers of the past decades: Manuel De Solà-Morales, who recently passed away.

Join Sarah Williams at SXSW on 11th March as she discusses "Sensoring the News: Detector-Driven Journalism" alongside John Keefe (WNYC Radio), Matt Waite (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), and Nadav Aharony (Behavio).

The School of Architecture + Planning at MIT today announces a major new research initiative called the Center for Advanced Urbanism that will tackle planning, design, construction and retrofitting of urban environments for the 21st century.

A recent exhibit at Pratt University showcases the Culture Now Project. SA+P faculty Alan Berger and Alexander D'Hooghe led the fall workshop "Lincolnopolis: Landscape Urbanization, Architecture, Urban Design, Mobility, Agriculture, Energy at the Interburban Frontier," alongside Anne Trumble from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Image courtesy of Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Photography credit: Alan Tansey